Ensuring backlog items meet a clear, actionable standard before sprint planning.
Definition of Ready (DoR) is an artifact.
From the perspective of Scrum, the idea of Ready, as applied to a Backlog Item, represents everyone’s (Developers, Product Owner, & Stakeholders) understanding of what is needed to implement that Backlog Item. Since this is subjective and not objective, having a definition of what constitutes ready is not possible.
The danger of having a defined definition of Ready (DoR) is:
A solution that may enable the effective use of this practice may be to a different formula of naming to create disambiguation between the DoR and the DoD.
Every candidate Backlog Item should have:
Once candidacy is achieved then the Team & Stakehodlers can determin Ready with conversation.
As a general rule Developers should not take Backlog Item into a Sprint that they do not fully understand and agree, as a team, that there is a reasonable likelihood of being successful.
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